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50 Céntimos Samper de Calanda
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Samper de Calanda |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue-green ink throughout, the note is framed by a typeset geometric border composed of interlocking chain-link and circular ornamental elements with small rosettes at each corner. The issuing authority "Consejo Municipal" and municipality name "Samper de Calanda" appear in the upper portion, followed by two parallel horizontal rules flanking the large-format denomination numeral "50 céntimos". Below, a three-line redemption clause and the manuscript signature of the President complete the design. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, with plain cream-coloured paper showing only the natural texture and fold marks of circulation. |
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Samper de Calanda is a small municipality in the Bajo Aragón district of Teruel province. During the Civil War, the Republican zone suffered acute small-change shortages almost immediately after July 1936 — silver coins vanished from circulation through hoarding and flight of capital, forcing hundreds of individual town councils across Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia to print their own emergency fractional paper. This note is one of those local expedients.
The Gari Montserrat catalogue documents over a thousand such municipal emissions from Aragon alone. Samper de Calanda's output was minimal, printed for purely local use and never intended to circulate beyond the immediate village economy. Survivors are scarce simply because the quantities issued were tiny and redemption — where it occurred at all — consumed most of the stock before the Nationalist advance into Aragon in 1938 ended the experiment entirely.